There are 5 books in the Canopus in Argos: Archives Series series. The newest book is The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire which came out in 1983.

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Shikasta

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Shikasta

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'.

The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the…

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The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 and 5

Book cover of The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 and 5

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the second instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'.

This is the story of the kindly Queen of Zone Three, who rules a land free of all harshness, and her forced marriage with the soldier-king…

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The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

Book cover of The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'.

The handsome, intelligent people of Planet 8 of the Canopean Empire know only an idyllic existence on their bountiful planet, its weather consistently nurturing, never harsh. They…

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The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire

The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'.

'The Sentimental Agents ...' is set in the declining Volyen Empire as the empires of Sirius and Shammat compete to overwhelm it with rhetoric and false…